The 2025 Vintage
Fermentations are now mostly complete and the cellar is angling down to its winter
temperature, so now is the time to button up my cardigan and reflect on the vintage just completed.
The Broken Immigration System
Now that the harvest season is largely over in Oregon, ICE has started to raid the farming communities in the Willamette Valley, arresting literally tens to hundreds at a time. Without immigrant workers helping us, we have no chance of bringing in a harvest next year. So the question becomes “what can we do?”
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